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Sex mit dem Feind, geil und hemmungslos!Evelina Adler kann ihren politischen Gegenspieler Alexander Kvist nicht ausstehen. Der Hass beruht auf Gegenseitigkeit. Als die beiden eines Abends nach einer Veranstaltung in einer Halle eingesperrt werden, wird es für beide heißer als gedacht. Schon bald überkommt Evelina und Alexander die Geilheit aufeinander und beide geben sich hemmungsloser Lust hin… -
| Автор | Vanessa Salt |
Die mysteriöse Entführung eines kleinen Jungen: Am 07. Februar 1966 wurde der kleine Basse aus seinem Kinderwagen vor einem Laden in Odense entführt und war spurlos verschwunden. Eine der größten Suchaktionen begann, jedoch führten die Zeugenaussagen meist in die Irre, und so hielt einer der merkwürdigsten Entführungsfälle Dänemarks die Öffentlichkeit lange Zeit in Atem…-
| Автор | Frederik Strand |
Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. <I>Hellboy's World</I> shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman’s dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened “adventure of...
| Автор | Scott Bukatman |
“It's good to have a Goffstein,” said The New York Times Book Review . Here's something even better—twenty-six of M. B. Goffstein’s best-known, and best-loved, books for children and adults. Groundbreaking when first published, and perhaps more resonant today than ever, Goffstein’s work champions the value of simplicity, nature, self-reliance, spiritual connections, and living a creative life. With humor and insight, Goffstein enlarges our world from seemingly small details. With...
| Автор | M. B. Goffstein |
Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental texts. The Victorians envisioned the East in many different modes or...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Wenn Träume in Erfüllung gehen…Lisa hat genug von ihrem Leben in Skive und bewirbt sich um einen Job in einem Kopenhagener Nachtclub. Das Vorstellungsgespräch läuft gut, und voller Erwartungen und Träume erkundet sie die Stadt. Planmäßig soll sie abends wieder nach Jütland fahren, doch dazu kommt es nicht, denn ehe sie es sich versieht, bekommt sie alles, was ihr Herz begehrt. -
| Автор | Terne Terkildsen |
Este libro es un homenaje al amor, un hijo de la inspiración que solo la llama del amor real puede crear. No permitamos que nada nos quite la dicha de creer: ¡El amor existe!, es luz, es magia, es realidad, es fuerza, es vida. En estos poemas encontrarán melodías, pensamientos y versos infinitos que rinden tributo a lo que necesita este mundo, dosis diarias de amor verdadero.
| Автор | Jorge Tigrero |
Había una vez un lobo, que cuando empezó la primavera y terminaron los rigores invernales, salió de su cueva y se sintió hambriento. Pensó en ir de caza por si encontraba algo de comer. Recorrió el bosque en busca de animales, pero no encontró ninguno, cosa que le puso de mal humor. Llegó a un llano, donde estaba un caballo paciendo sobre la hierba
| Автор | La Fontaine |
From cuisine and martial arts to sex and self-esteem, <i>East Eats West</i> shines new light on the bridges and crossroads where two hemispheres meld into one worldwide “immigrant nation.” In this new nation, with its amalgamation of divergent ideas, tastes, and styles, today's bold fusion becomes tomorrow's classic. But while the space between East and West continues to shrink in this age of globalization, some cultural gaps remain. In this collection...
| Автор | Andrew Lam |
This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H....
| Автор | Robert Duncan |
The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert «styles.» Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.<br /><br />How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where <i>realistic</i> theater relies on the...
| Автор | W. B. Worthen |
Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner...
| Автор | Jerome Loving |
Katzen und Wasser passen überhaupt nicht zusammen. Doch dem kleinen Straßenkater bleibt keine Wahl. Wenn er überleben will, muss er auf ein Schiff flüchten. Ehe er sich's versieht, ist er auf hoher See, unter Ratten und Piraten. Aber ein Kater gibt nie auf!
| Автор | Lisa Dröttboom |
In the Year of Jubilee is a novel written by George Gissing and depicts the story of the romantic and sexual initiation of a suburban heroine, Nancy Lord. It shows marriage troubles and damages that industrial society made to the moral values.
| Автор | George Gissing |
Hermano Sol, hermana Luna, hermano Lobo, hermana ninguna. Soy la mujer luna, aunque la aurora y el paso de la noche no despejen el misterio que oculta mi cintura.
| Автор | Rossi Blengio |
The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. <i>The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America</i> is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority, truth-telling, and the...
| Автор | Ann Fabian |
In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends—the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power—were linked in complex and surprising ways. While most cultural historians of the...
| Автор | Christina Klein |
In this deeply moving collection of short stories and essays, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupeño/Cahuilla) cements his voice not only as a wry commentator on American Indian reservation life but also as a master of fiction writing. In Johnson's stories, all of which are set on the fictional San Ignacio reservation in Southern California, we meet unforgettable characters like Plato Pena, the Stanford-bound geek who reads Kahlil Gibran during intertribal softball games; hardboiled...
| Автор | Gordon Lee Johnson |
Ein Romanfragment über die Entwicklung eines jungen Mannes zum Dichter: Heinrich erscheint in einem Traum im Kelch einer blauen Blume, die ein wichtiges Symbol der Romantik wurde, das Gesicht einer jungen Frau, die er nach einigen Begebenheiten schließlich kennenlernt. Mit vielen Märchen, Träumen, Allegorien und Liedern durchsetzt, ist dieses Romanfragment ein Meisterwerk der Romantik.-
| Автор | Novalis |
Ein Lebkuchenhaus im Wald, ein Wirtshaus in Wolfenbüttel und ein kleiner Junge mit einem Dämon unter dem Bett. All sie stecken in diesem Buch mit ungewöhnlichen Kurzgeschichten. Meine gruseligen, witzigen, seltsamen und merkwürdigen Geschichten. Viel Spaß!
| Автор | Marie-Christin Spitznagel |
Shakespearian Henriad refers to a group of four William Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. These four plays constitute the Shakespearian epic with Prince Harry, who later becomes Henry V, as a central figure. Thanks to Shakespeare, King Henry V today stands side by side with the classical epic heroes such are Achilles and Aeneas, as one of the greatest warrior kings of medieval England,.
| Автор | William Hazlitt |